Tag Archives: USBhost-64

USB-Commander working with SDHost-64

Posted on October 28, 2017 by Luigi Di Fraia

As I am testing existing tools with my USBhost-64 low-cost replacement, SDHost-64, I thought to give USB-Commander a go too. Here’s the results:

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More testing of SDHost-64 with my Commodore 64

Posted on October 27, 2017 by Luigi Di Fraia

Here’s a video update showing SDHost-64 loading a larger binary file into my Commodore 64. Enjoy!

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Troubleshooting successful

Posted on October 27, 2017 by Luigi Di Fraia

After work today I was pondering again the presence of erroneous 0xFF values in the stream read by the Commodore 64 from my USBhost-64 replacement device. It turns out that I was quite right when I thought the erroneous reads … Continue reading →

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Some more troubleshooting

Posted on October 26, 2017 by Luigi Di Fraia

As part of the troubleshooting process for my USBhost-64 replacement, I decided to take the Commodore 64 out of the equation and test again with my mock-up circuit. I could not reproduce the issue there, but I was able to … Continue reading →

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Troubleshooting some data transfer over the User Port

Posted on October 24, 2017 by Luigi Di Fraia

I am in the process of troubleshooting the alteration of some data in my USBhost-64 replacement. I thought to share the details of the data alteration in the hope that it might ring some bells with others while I give … Continue reading →

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Update on the replacement device for my USBhost-64 project

Posted on October 23, 2017 by Luigi Di Fraia

It was last August when I was getting back to the replacement device for my USBhost-64 project. At the time I was distracted by my work for the crack of Rubicon, for TAPClean, and for my IFFL code, among other things. … Continue reading →

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Quite an update!

Posted on August 6, 2017 by Luigi Di Fraia

Back in January I was working at a replacement device for my USBhost-64 project, in order to be able to come up with something relatively inexpensive that would re-use the code I had written on the C64 side for interfacing … Continue reading →

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All file system commands implemented in my USB host replacement

Posted on January 3, 2017 by Luigi Di Fraia

By dinner time today I implemented all file system commands that USB BASIC needs access to for read/write operations: the unit tests fired by my Commodore 64 mock-up device all passed 🙂 Here’s the debug log output on the USB host replacement’s console: opendir() = 0 … Continue reading →

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A few more file system commands added to my USB host replacement

Posted on January 3, 2017 by Luigi Di Fraia

After work I wrote the code for a few additional file system commands in my USB host replacement project: file open, file read, file seek, file close. I also had to make a significant change to the command parser due to … Continue reading →

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First file system command implemented in my USB host replacement

Posted on January 2, 2017 by Luigi Di Fraia

We spent the day in Oxford which was very nice, albeit quite cold. The result was a headache that required some rest and a warm green tea to recover from. After that I went on and implemented the first file system access … Continue reading →

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